More than 80 local and nationally-recognized bands will come together starting today in Trumansburg as the 32nd annual Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance gets underway.
Five different stages are located at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds. The host band is Donna the Buffalo, others this year include Old Crow Medicine Show, Mavis Staples, Jim Lauderdale, and Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway.
The “roots” of Grassroots go back to 1990 when the world was facing the AIDS epidemic. That’s when Donna the Buffalo, The Horse Flies, and Neon Baptist responded with a sold out show at Ithaca’s State Theatre and raised over $10,000 for AIDS Work of Tompkins County. That was the spark that turned into the Grassroots Festival.
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31st Annual Grassroots Underway In Trumansburg
